From the course: Getting Started in After Effects for Illustrator Users

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AE tools from Illustrator: Type and shapes

AE tools from Illustrator: Type and shapes

From the course: Getting Started in After Effects for Illustrator Users

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AE tools from Illustrator: Type and shapes

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- [Instructor] In this lesson we'll get started with built-in After Effects tools that are relatively close cousins to those you commonly use, in Illustrator. So for this, I'm going to go back to my default workspace just by clicking right up here and then go, to the other menu for this. And, I'm going to get rid of the panels that we don't need right now. Not because like content or we're a fill they're completely unfamiliar, but, if, like the tracker, like the libraries, like the align tool, they're not things we really need to use right now. If you're familiar with them already, Great! But if not, let's just clear them away. Preview, I'm just using space bar to preview footage, audio I'm not previewing at all. Info gives me data as I move around the frame as to pixels, and their positions. So that's fine. We can leave that one open. Now let's make some…

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